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- From: h9290246@hkuxa.hku.hk (Zsoter Andras)
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
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- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 15:10:26 GMT
-
- Rick DeNatale (denatale@nando.net) wrote:
-
- >bulk of their staff who most likely were grizzled but experienced COBOL
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >programmers (who really do consitute the silent majority of professional
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >programmers to this day). Of course the technical staff, who want after
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- In the US this might be true. In the rest of the world it is not true.
- I have never met a "professional COBOL programmer" in my life.
- I guess outside the USA noone ever bothered to use such a beast as COBOL. ;-)
-
- >
- >In the meantime, I got tired a long time ago of debugging these problems
- >while effectively writing the same code over and over and over again to do
- >binary trees, or b-trees or sorts or whatever, the only difference being a
- >few little details of data types, memory allocation etc. etc. etc. I just
- >wanted to get the job done, which after all is what the bosses are looking
- >for.
- >
- >That's why I'm a Smalltalk programmer! A proudly professional, computer
- >science degree carrying, well-paid, respected in the circles which I care
- >about, Smalltalk Programmer.
-
- Well, if you can get your job done with whatever tool be happy with it.
- But don't forget that someone HAS TO implement the insides of your
- SmallTalk, soone has to do the juggling with the pointers otherwise
- you would not get your toy to play with!
- You, at least, know what is (or can be) inside your SmallTalk, some
- people cannot even imagine. So where is the border between a programmer
- and an educated user?
-
- Andras
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-